Mike Higgs

(UK)

Mike Higgs is the artist of the successful strip 'The Cloak', that appeared in the Oddhams Press weekly Pow! (1967-68) and Smash! (1968-69). He drew 'Space School' for Whizzer & Chips, 'Thundercap' for Buster, and for amateur publications like Ka-Pow and Unicorn ('Tales from a Distant Star', 'The Barbarian'). Higgs also created the daily strip 'Moonbird' for various Associated Newspapers titles, and later in a series of children's books.

Higgs eventually moved on to design books for among others Hawk Books, including the reprints of Eagle 'Dan Dare' pages, 'Comics at War', 'The Comic Art of Charlie Chaplin', 'Popeye: the 60th Anniversary Collection' and 'The Monster Society of Evil'.